Re: GLib 2.17.1 released

[Aron Rubin <aron rubin lmco com>]

I am afraid to ask but I will do it anyway. g_themed_icon seems like major scope
creep to me. What is the rationale for that being in GLib?

Aron

Matthias Clasen wrote:
> GLib 2.17.1 is now available for download at:
> 
>    http://download.gnome.org/sources/glib/2.17/
> 
> glib-2.17.1.tar.bz2     md5sum: 9121af8ff782ade6d745d76bd6a38a6a
> glib-2.17.1.tar.gz      md5sum: 21154cd67be5a81f675d3c55ce5dea91
> 
> This is the second development release leading up to GLib 2.18.
> 
> Notes:
> 
>  * This is unstable development release. While it has had
>    a bit of testing, there are certainly plenty of bugs
>    remaining to be found. This release should not be used
>    in production.
> 
>  * Installing this version will overwrite your existing
>    copy of GLib 2.16. If you have problems, you'll need
>    to reinstall GLib 2.16.
> 
>  * GLib 2.18 will be source and binary compatible with
>    the GLib 2.16 series; however, the new API additions
>    in GLib 2.17.1 are not yet finalized, so there may
>    be incompatibilities between this release and the final
>    2.18 release.
> 
>  * Bugs should be reported to http://bugzilla.gnome.org.
> 
> 
> About GLib
> ==========
> 
> GLib is the low-level core library that forms the basis for projects
> such as GTK+ and GNOME. It provides data structure handling for C,
> portability wrappers, and interfaces for such runtime functionality as
> an event loop, threads, dynamic loading, and an object system.
> 
> More information about GLib is available at:
> 
>  http://www.gtk.org/
> 
> An installation guide for the GTK+ libraries, including GLib, can
> be found at:
> 
>  http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gtk-gtk-building.html
> 
> 
> Overview of Changes from GLib 2.17.0 to GLib 2.17.1
> ===================================================
> 
> * New function: g_utime(), a gstdio wrapper for utime()
> 
> * New functions: g_dgettext() and g_dngettext(), wrappers
>   for corresponding gettext functions with added functionality
> 
> * Support the latest version of the shared-mime spec, including
>   icons for mime types
> 
> * New function: g_themed_icon_prepend_name()
> 
> * Bugs fixed:
>  535418 Please document which glib version defines goffset
>  528715 Misprint in the description of the interface   
>         g_type_class_add_private
>  528714 Misprint in the description of the interface g_param_spec_flags
>  537260 Doc bug in G_TYPE_INSTANCE_GET_CLASS()
>  530527 Misprint in the description of the interface
>         g_cclosure_marshal_VOID__FLAGS
>  530526 Misprint in the description of the fields 'class_init' and
>         'class_finalize' of the structure GTypeInfo
>  528719 Improvement to the documentation of the "g_object_connect"
>         interface
>  528172 gtk_signal_handlers_unblock_* functions return value
>         amount of matched signals, not amount of actually unblocked
>  528717 Misprint in the description of the parameter 'type_id' for
>         the interface g_type_register_fundamental
>  528716 Misprint in the description of the parameter 'iface_data' for
>         the callback types GInterfaceInitFunc and GInterfaceFinalizeFunc
>  537555 GObject instantiation not thread safe
>  537546 'desktop' shortcut in file chooser looks like a generic folder
>  537392 Additional colon in xattr name
>  536641 Filesystem querying in gio does not list AFS and autofs file
>         systems
>  528600 g_dummy_file_get_parent("scheme://example.com/")
>  503071 Application direction changes to right to left even if theres no
>         translation
>  502511 g_assert_cmphex prints invalid message
>  338162 Use po/LINGUAS
>  314453 Nautilus crashes in Solaris when browsing the attached file
>  529321 make check fails in glib/pcre
>  455215 g_get_user_special_dir: no reference about 
>         G_USER_DIRECTORY_DOWNLOAD fallback to $HOME/Desktop if
>         xdg-user-dirs is not in use
>  498732 g_key_file_to_data cannot fail
>  511367 add g_file_make_directory_with_parents
>  531900 Use __builtin_offsetof for G_STRUCT_OFFSET if building with
>         gcc 4.0 or newer
>  536158 also bump GHashTable version when a node is removed via
>         g_hash_table_iter_remove()/g_hash_table_iter_steal()
>  531403 g_utf8_collate broken on Mac
>  535628 test/patterntest.c still includes gpattern.h directly
>  535625 alias.h:2648: error: 'utime' undeclared here (not in a function)
> 
> * Translation updates:
>  Arabic (ar)
>  German (de)
>  Italian (it)
>  Norwegian bokmål (nb)
>  Thai (th)
> 
> 
> Thanks to all contributors:
> Tor Lillqvist
> Michael Natterer
> Hiroyuki Ikezoe
> Yevgen Muntyan
> Jean-Yves Lefort
> Sebastian Dröge
> Ross Burton
> Christian Persch
> Luca Ferretti
> Takao Fujiwara
> Thomas Andersen
> Paolo Borelli
> Owen Taylor
> Christian Neumair
> Danny Baumann
> Alessandro Morandi
> Andrew Walton
> Michael Meeks
> Areg Beketovski
> Holger Berndt
> 
> 
> June 12, 2008
> Matthias Clasen
> 
> 
> 
> 
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